Local Executive Council 17 – AFA Horizon Air

AS/QX Labor Coalition

Posted on December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 by Webmaster

On Monday, December 16th, 2019, the Labor Coalition, composed of elected leaders of each unionized employee group at Alaska Airlines as well as AFA and IBT at Horizon Air, met at the ALPA MEC office. Each workgroup provided an update on their current challenges with the Company. The Coalition also discussed common concerns surrounding issues […]

Scheduling Committee – Update

Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Webmaster

June Bid 322 Scheduling Notes June will be our third full month of mixed-pairing flying. With it, there were a total of 1,437 trips between all our bases. Of those, 327 are Q400 flying and 252 are E175 flying. That’s about 59.7% mixed, 17.5% E175, and 22.8% Q400. Break down by base for the June […]

MEC Meeting – April

Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019 by Webmaster

AFA MEC President and Acting President were able to meet with Brooke Vatheuer, SVP Operations and Planning, for the first time since she has been in her new position. This will be a quarterly meeting and we will communicate what issues were discussed and/or resolved at each meeting. Given today was the first meeting we […]

Mixed Pairings – Update

Posted on March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 by Webmaster

Dear Horizon AFA Flight Attendants, AFA is very concerned with the mixed pairings that are scheduled to take place commencing with the April bid.  When we first heard the idea from inflight management about ten months ago, we expressed numerous concerns that we had. These included safety, operational, quality of life, credit values and the ability to preference individual aircraft. We also cited contractual language that we believe the potential mixed […]

Communication – Mixed Pairings

Posted on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 by Webmaster

Mixed Pairings-APR19 Bid The AFA Master Executive Council was recently informed by Inflight management that they are planning to build trips (pairings), starting with the APR19 bid, that will contain both E-175 and Q 400 flying. There may be delays with the timeline, but the current plan is to start using mixed pairings in April […]

Medford Crew Room

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Webmaster

Hi all, I want to follow up with you on the email I sent a few weeks ago regarding the Port taking some of our crew room space. Great news. The Port has found another location and will not be taking our space, so we are good for now. We are also moving forward with […]

HZN LEC 17 Spring 2018 Meeting Minutes

Posted on October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 by Webmaster

HZN LEC 17 Spring 2018 Meeting Minutes March 12, 2018 – Sandy Room – PDX Airport Call to order – 1405 – Kirk Hansen & Jane Casey Present: Lori Kordosky, Jane Casey, Callie von Borstel, Kirk Hansen, Marcella Oswald, Lynnette Clark, Sara Nelson, Ed Hawes and Lisa Davis-Warren Approved minutes from October 23, 2017, meeting. […]

FALL LEC 17 Union Meeting

Posted on October 7, 2018October 7, 2018 by Webmaster

Contract Negotiators Attending – Bring your questions! MFR & PDX FAs – MARK YOUR CALENDARS! FALL LEC 17 Union Meeting All Horizon Air Flight Attendants Invited: Wednesday, October 10, 10-1 p.m. Sandy Room – PDX Airport Outside security, upstairs by clock tower Agenda will include: Committee updates & current events Contact an LEC 17 […]